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Sprint moved ahead with the pricing of its previously announced offering of $1 billion of 1.5% notes due 2021 and $3 billion aggregate principal amount of 9% guaranteed notes due 2018.
Sprint said it will use the funds for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, redemptions or service requirements of outstanding debt, network expansion and modernization and potential funding of Clearwire.
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Sprint. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Nextel Communications built Nationwide push-to-talk mobile operator. What became of it?
Nextel Communications brought Nationwide push-to-talk mobile operator to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its merger with Sprint for US$35B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Sprint today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
